Two new plugins have been released at LewcidTW.
The AnnotationsPlugin allows you to annotate content, by creating small text bubbles that appear when you move your mouse over key words or phrases.
The FootnotesPlugin provides an automated way to create a bibliography for each tiddler, by creating footnotes which are automatically numbered and linked to the relevant part of the content.
Both plugins were written primarily with an academic usage in mind, though they should prove useful in a variety of contexts. Feedback, bug reports and suggestions for improvement are most welcome.
These are the first of numerous plugins to be released here; watch this space for more.
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Great job, buddy - those plugins are very useful indeed, not just for scholars and students!
Suggestion for both plugins: Use a proper shadow tiddler for the CSS code, so the user can easily customize the appearance.
Here’s another suggestion for the FootnotesPlugin:
When hovering over the link to a footnote, the footnote’s text should pop up (either as a tooltip, or as a bubble similar to the AnnotationsPlugin).
That would give the FootnotesPlugin the AnnotationsPlugin’s ease of use while retaining the index of all footnotes at the bottom.
FND: Good suggestions, both of them. I’m making a note and will try to get to it very soon.
Suggestions and feedback on plugins is always most appreciated.
Another note regarding the FootnotesPlugin:
The backticks are awkward to type on some keyboard layouts. That’s because backticks are used for grave accents, so a single keystroke does not normally yield a character output. (More information here.)
An alternative, less problematic syntax would be very welcome.
Maybe something like
~~~footnote~~~- or even<ref>footnote</ref>(to comply with MediaWiki’s syntax)…FND: Thanks for that Fred, I did not anticipate that problem with the backticks. I’ll look into providing an alternative syntax in the next version. Does anyone else have a better suggestion than
<ref>footnote</ref>?Great plugin, Saq! I am using the AnnotationsPlugin already, in conjunction with the easyFormat text editor, so I select text, then choose popup from a menu in edit mode. Works great! See it here on an almost finished project of mine: http://www.giffmex.org/biblejotter.html
I absolutely love the footnote plugin! But I ran into problem using it with MonkeyPirateTiddlyWiki, somehow only the superscripts show up, but not the footnotes themselves.
Does your plugin require some dependencies? Currently I am frustrated and don’t know where to look to.
But thanks for the great plugin anyway!
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